I hope he remembers the Alamo because he’s about to experience something similar.

We survived Carter and Clinton…we can certainly survive one of the three Democrats running if we don’t get Huckabee’s miracle…unless…well, if the sky falls…all men (and women) must die sometime…sooner, later…just make sure you’re ready for what comes after death…where will you spend eternity?

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=12205

A Tale of Two Candidates
By Quin Hillyer
Published 10/24/2007 12:08:28 AM

“Ask lots of folks in Arkansas, including Republicans, and a fair number will probably tell you that Huck is for Huck is for Huck. National media folks like David Brooks, dealing in surface appearances only, rave about what a nice guy Huckabee is, and a moral exemplar to boot. If they only did a little homework, they would discover a guy with a thin skin, a nasty vindictive streak, and a long history of imbroglios about questionable ethics.

Once, Gov. Huckabee even had the gall to file suit against the state ethics commission. He lost.

Fourteen times, the ethics commission — a respected body, not a partisan witch-hunt group — investigated claims against Huckabee. Five of those times, it officially reprimanded him. And, as only MSNBC among the big national media has reported at any real length, there were lots of other mini-scandals and embarrassments along the way.

He used public money for family restaurant meals, boat expenses, and other personal uses. He tried to claim as his own some $70,000 of furniture donated to the governor’s mansion. He repeatedly, and obstinately, against the pleadings even from conservative columnists and editorials, refused to divulge the names of donors to a “charitable” organization he set up while lieutenant governor — an outfit whose main charitable purpose seemed to be to pay Huckabee to make speeches. Then, as a kicker, he misreported the income itself from the suspicious “charity.”

Huckabee has been criticized, reasonably so, for misusing the state airplane for personal reasons. And he and his wife, Janet, actually set up a “wedding gift registry” (they had already been married for years) to which people could donate as the Huckabees left the governorship, in order to furnish their new $525,000 home.

According to the Arkansas News Bureau (Feb. 1, 2003), “Huckabee’s personal lawyer, Kevin Crass of Little Rock, has said Huckabee believes there should be no limit on gifts short of a bribe.” After all, said Janet Huckabee, public officials like her husband should be automatically trusted: “Until you absolutely positively know that the man has outright lied to you, it should be enough that the man’s word is that everything was done appropriately, legally, to the best of his knowledge to the letter of the law.”

Of course, her reasoning refutes itself: If one is precluded from even questioning “the man’s word,” how can one possibly find out in the first place whether the official “has outright lied to you”?

It must be said that a fair-minded journalist ought to tread lightly in scrutinizing a candidate’s spouse; but in Janet Huckabee’s case, she is a politician in her own right, having run unsuccessfully for Arkansas Secretary of State. Voters overwhelmingly rejected her, perhaps because they remembered her propensity for other outrageous statements — such as the time when she defended secrecy about the donors to her husband’s “charity” by saying that a donor’s name “wouldn’t be enough. [Then] you’d want to know who he was married to, and then his wife would be German descent, and you’d have Mike, you’d have him responsible for 600,000 killings of Jews.”

Huh?

Of course, nobody accused Huckabee of genocide. But his skin is so thin that when various underlings in his administration, even for bureaus as small as the state film office, crossed ethical lines (some of them, admittedly, rather minor), the governor consistently and angrily attacked the media for reporting the transgressions rather than demanding that the transgressors make things right.

Finally, Gov. Huckabee had a propensity to be almost as prodigal with pardons as was his famous predecessor by the name of Clinton. Indeed, Hillary Clinton’s campaign team is probably licking their chops at the prospect of Huck as the nominee, because one of his pardons, in particular, was so outlandish as to make Willie Horton’s case in Massachusetts seem almost child’s play by comparison. After Huckabee helped secure the release of already-well-known rapist Wayne Dumond, the released convict sexually assaulted and murdered a woman in Missouri.

All of which leads one to ask two questions: First, how can voters whose primary concerns are moral look beyond so many of a candidate’s problems with ethics? And, second, if Republicans in general have concluded, as most of them have, that repeated scandals among Washington GOPers played a huge role in Republican defeats in 2006, how could they possibly nominate somebody who seems to have such big ethical blind spots?

Give this to Huckabee: The man gives a good speech. But so does Duncan Hunter, with the biggest difference being that Hunter’s speeches appeal more to the intellect than the heartstrings — and that Hunter can boast 25 years of leadership for conservative causes, including on taxing and spending issues where Huckabee is notoriously un-conservative.

For that matter, if the question is public ethics, all the other major Republican candidates have rather solid records. With so little scandalous material to look into, why hasn’t the usually scandal-ravenous national media delved into the record of the one GOP candidate whose ethics have been repeatedly questioned in his home state?

Has even the cynical big media been fooled by a Huckster?”

What does one do when you’re the Israeli Prime Minister and you’re getting political heat from your rivals?

SAME OLD, SAME OLD!! Kill a bunch of ARABS. It never fails to work. And the Republican’s just sit back and chuckle. Elud’s Olmert’s bloody stock is on the rise again.

Barack Obama is the only one who will fight for all of the people in the middle east. when are we going to rein in the Jews.

Would it be legal if Senator McCain just gave Gomer Pyle enough delegates to beat Romney’s total. How much longer must we put up with this phony baloney back-stabing slime ball.

I thought for awhile that Huckabee wasn’t a true member of the “ONLY TRUE CHURCH”. I Have been proved wrong. After his attacking McCain as a Baby Killer and for Ratting on his fellow POWs and for not being a U.S. citizen, I realize that he adheres to the highest standards of his Church and it’s followers. Why else would they continue to support him knowing what he’s tried to do the John McCain? Why? Because they don’t have a problem with it.

It could have just as easily been 140 ethic violations.

Unethical is such a soft way of describing Gomer Pyle. He is everything that you wouldn’t want to see a person.

He does have one talent (and it definitely not the Guitar)… He can get the support of Radical Fundamentalist Christians. The same one who bow to the Benny Hinns and James Dobsons. You know, the ones who have a daily one on one with GOD. All you have to do is to give them the Roe vs. Wade bone to gnaw on and they are oblivious at all else.

Shelby… you right!

Huckabee is a B$10,000 a night hotel room Benny HInn wanna be. He coildn’t do it as a “paster’ so now he’s trying to get the riches and fame a through the presidency. What fakes… boh of them

It will vastly dissimilar because he’s no Patriot and Davey Crockett and Jim Bowie didn’t have a right wing wacko radio talk show gig waiting for them.

Billy Boy…

i suppose you would not defend your home and family if someone broke into you home and started killing your family. Obama has no clue and wants to make friends with the terrorists. I suppose he expects Israel to invite their attackers to dinner.

AND if someone invaded you homeland and turned your citizens into beggers? Are you good with that?

Another Huckabee article, and the same old bashers come out with their old arguments. It all sounds like an echo of right wing talk radio.

Well “Old Fellows” I have news for you:

The Republican Conservative movement has become so perverse with greed that it is going down in flames.

With McCain at the controls, you can be assured of a crash.

Huckabee is the last hope to reset the conservative movement on its original course.

Obama will send McCain into a tailspin and Ace his way to the white house.

The Democrats will capture the White House and hold republicans prisoner for eight years.

So be the good little Target Drones that you are and vote for McCain.

I will do my Victory Roll for Huckabee!

Are FREE beggars not better than slaughtered slaves? Seeing through Obama’s eyes… we see the US as an evil villain killing good people, pillaging, and plundering for oil… hey isn’t that what Hussein did in Kuwait.

HUssein murdered or directed the mass murder of hundreds of thousands of people. Whether we found the WMD’s or not, a MULTITUDE of leaders (democrats as well) were privy to the information the president had and voted to invade Iraq.

The blame for any begging should fall squarely on the backs of the insurgents and just like America… there are those that simply do not want to work.

lurker: This Blog is about Mike Huckabee, Quit spewing nonsense!

This is why I like Mike Huckabee, he is not afraid to get his hands dirty. Do you think any of the other candidates would make their own trail down a muddy riverbank? This is the problem we have had with Bush.

We need a presidant who is not afraid to get his hands dirty.

I am voting for Mike Huckabee on March 4th

If there was a lick of merit to Huckabee’s so called ethics violations don’t you think the national media would have been all over it just before and after Iowa?

All of those “charges” that were brought against him were thrown out. If you’re gonna quote an article, at least make sure it’s a correct article.

John,

How is it that Huckabee is a conservative? Is it his ethics violations. (I know most were frivolous, but SOME weren’t.) Is it his increasing government? Maybe it is his tax raising? Maybe it is giving a free ride to illegals? So other than his stance on abortion, what is it that makes him a conservative? Please don’t tell me it is the fair tax, which won’t work if it would pass, and wouldn’t pass so it is moot. His record is anything but conservative. Do you believe what he says over what he does? If that is so, why do you believe him? Is it because when he says he won’t show an ad, he does. Or when he says he has a theology degree and he doesn’t? Maybe it is because when he took money from his previous campaigns and was fined for it, he blamed it on Bill Clinton picking on him. Maybe it is because he says he ran against the Clinton Machine 4 times and he was successful, when he actually lost twice and then only took office after a scandal and then ran as the incumbent?

So why is it that you think Huckabee is the hope for the Republican party?

Amanda… the media was all over it. Huckabee is just very”slick” and always avoids the issues… see below.

John… I was responding to Billy Boy. You want this to be about Huckabee… here you go…

from judicialwatch.com

6. Governor Mike Huckabee (R-AR): Governor Huckabee enjoyed a meteoric rise in the polls in December 2007, which prompted a more thorough review of his ethics record. According to The Associated Press: “[Huckabee’s] career has also been colored by 14 ethics complaints and a volley of questions about his integrity, ranging from his management of campaign cash to his use of a nonprofit organization to subsidize his income to his destruction of state computer files on his way out of the governor’s office.” And what was Governor Huckabee’s response to these ethics allegations? Rather than cooperating with investigators, Huckabee sued the state ethics commission twice and attempted to shut the ethics process down.

from http://www.politico.com

They did, however, yield five admonitions and $1,000 in fines from Arkansas’ Ethics Commission and, perhaps more significantly, a pattern that strategists for two competing GOP campaigns privately predict could become fodder for attacks playing on the culture-of-corruption theme Democrats used to pound Republicans in the 2006 midterm elections.

In fact, when Huckabee entered the presidential race in January, the Democratic National Committee was quick to highlight a couple of the ethics issues that have dogged him and urged him to “come clean about his … history of ethical lapses.”

Huckabee didn’t get many ethics questions — or many tough questions about anything — as he languished at the bottom of the polls and the fundraising race through the summer.

But his surprising second-place finish in the influential August straw poll in Ames, Iowa, and strong debate performances have turned heads and started bringing more scrutiny.

After Huckabee fielded ethics questions last weekend on “Fox News Sunday,” campaign aides for former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson, who’s competing with Huckabee for socially conservative voters, put out a statement accusing Huckabee of “repeatedly dodg[ing] questions about his ethical problems.”

AND MORE

The ethics commission fined Huckabee $1,000 for failing to report that he paid himself $14,000 from his 1992 U.S. Senate campaign and $43,000 from his 1994 lieutenant governor’s campaign.

The latter payment — for the use of his eight-seat, twin-engine plane — was reported in a cryptic way that didn’t identify Huckabee and his wife as the owners of the plane.

Huckabee sued the commission, alleging its investigation into the campaign payments violated state rules and his due process rights.

And he asked the judge to impose a statute of limitations on ethics complaints.

The commission, whose director accused Huckabee of trying “to shut the commission down,” sued Huckabee for trying to quash its subpoenas, though both sides dropped their suits after reaching an out-of-court settlement.

Action America

The commission found Huckabee unintentionally failed to disclose $23,500 he received from a nonprofit organization set up to handle his speaking engagements and supplement his income before he became governor.

The nonprofit, Action America, paid Huckabee a total of $41,500 in 1994 and 1995 but missed IRS filing deadlines for those years.

Huckabee has repeatedly declined to disclose the handful of benefactors who financed the group.

After Huckabee’s “Fox News Sunday” appearance, Thompson’s campaign accused the former governor of using Action America to “funnel his speaking fees through the organization and avoid disclosure requirements.”

Gifts

According to Huckabee’s disclosure reports, he accepted more than 300 gifts worth at least $130,000, ranging from $3,700 cowboy boots to a $600 chainsaw and $250 worth of dental care.

Plenty of politicians accept gifts of all sorts, but Huckabee had problems with Arkansas gift rules that bar public officials from accepting rewards for official action and require them to report the value and source of gifts.

He alleged in a second lawsuit against the commission that the rules were unconstitutionally vague.

Meanwhile, commissioners were investigating a $500 canoe that Coca-Cola gave him and ultimately fined him $250 for accepting it because they said it rewarded him for doing his job.

A judge later overturned the canoe decision but upheld an admonition for Huckabee’s failure to report receiving a $200 stadium blanket the same year.

Governor’s mansion

Allegations by a former governor’s mansion employee in 1998 became part of the basis for a lawsuit against Huckabee over his family’s use of a $60,000-a-year fund. The lawsuit also dealt with Huckabee’s assertion that $70,000 worth of furniture donated to the governor’s mansion was his to keep.

The fund had been used to pay for pizza, a doghouse, a magazine subscription and pantyhose for Huckabee’s wife, Janet, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported.

The suit was settled with Huckabee admitting no wrongdoing but acknowledging a dispute “regarding reimbursements” and making clear the furniture was for the mansion.

‘Wedding’ registry

As the Huckabees prepared to leave the governor’s mansion last year for a private home in the Little Rock suburbs, Janet Huckabee’s friends set up registries on two stores’ websites listing $7,000 worth of housewarming gifts, ranging from napkins to a $300 KitchenAid mixer.

Arkansas newspapers quoted state lawmakers criticizing the registries, which were listed as “wedding” registries, even though the Huckabees have been married since 1974.

Huckabee explained the only option other than weddings was baby showers.

And the couple lashed out at Arkansas media for their coverage of the registries, which Janet Huckabee told the Democrat-Gazette did “permanent damage.”

Computer drives

Before leaving office Jan. 9, Huckabee spent $13,000 in state funds to destroy the hard drives of nearly 100 computers in the governor’s office.

He pointed out that he had backed up the data and argued that the hard drive destruction was standard practice to prevent the dissemination of sensitive information related to employees or constituents.

Critics suggested he was hiding something. But the ethics commission dismissed complaints alleging violations of record management rules.

That might not be the end of the story, though.

A lawyer is suing Huckabee, alleging that he misspent state money on the destruction.

from realclearpolitics.com

Some will also argue Mr. Huckabee is no more ethically challenged than Mr. Giuliani, who is getting pounded with questions about Judith Nathan’s security detail and Giuliani Partner clients. The difference is that Hizzoner is a celebrity whose past bones were long ago picked clean by the media crows. Even the Nathan flap is an extension of news that made the rounds five years ago.

The obscure governor from Arkansas is, in contrast, a deep sea for media diving. Most recent have been stories about his pardons and commutations, as well as the news that R.J. Reynolds contributed to Action America. Mr. Huckabee–who now wants a national smoking ban in public places–responded that he never knew he accepted tobacco money, which has inspired a former adviser to claim Mr. Huckabee is being “less than truthful.” What’s next?

The GOP is still reeling from its financial scandals, which helped Democrats tag the party with a “culture of corruption” in last year’s congressional races. A Huckabee nomination would also neutralize one of the biggest weapons against nominee Hillary Clinton–her own ethically tortured past. If the subject came up at all, it would be a race to the Arkansas bottom. A matchup with Barack Obama could be worse, since the “politics of hope” senator has so far avoided scandal and could bludgeon Mr. Huckabee on his past.

from the NYT

When Mike Huckabee became lieutenant governor of Arkansas in 1993, he complained of being burdened by college tuition bills for his son, the expenses of two residences — one in Texarkana and the other in Little Rock — and the cost of commuting between the two.

With an annual salary of $25,452, he said he was falling short in covering the bills. “It was costing me money to be lieutenant governor,” Mr. Huckabee recalled in a 1997 newspaper interview.

To bridge the gap between his income and his expenses, Mr. Huckabee and a few close political advisers came up with a plan. They formed a nonprofit organization that raised money for Mr. Huckabee to travel the country promoting conservative politics to fellow ministers and attacking Hillary Rodham Clinton’s health care plan.

In its three-year life span, the organization, Action America, collected $119,916 from a dozen or so donors. Among them were former Senator Bob Dole’s political action committee, an Arkansas cotton gin owner who had been jailed for stock fraud, and R. J. Reynolds, the tobacco giant that had opposed the Clinton health plan. As for Mr. Huckabee, he ended up with $61,500 for his efforts before becoming governor in July 1996 and shuttering the group.

As information about the secretive group began to leak out in 1997, Democrats in Arkansas pressed for the identity of its donors, which Mr. Huckabee has refused to disclose. In addition, he failed to report his Action America income on his 1994 financial disclosure form, resulting in a “letter of caution” from the Arkansas Ethics Commission in 1997.

THIS GOES ON AND ON. AT LEAST WE KNOW THE CLINTON’S ARE CORRUPT, HUCKABEE PARADES AS A MINISTER AND MANY PEOPLE JUST GOBBLE UP HIS ‘AW SHUCKS” APPROACH”.

MIKE HUCKABEE AS STAN LAUREL!!!

JOHN McCAIN AS OLIVER HARDY!!!

WATCH FOR THEM IN THIS SUMMER’S BLOCKBUSTER:

**** LAUREL & HARDY MEET THE OBAMA-ZOMBIES & ****
**** THE SHRILLARY FLYING FEMI-NAZI MONKEYS!!!! ****

SCARY, VERRRY SCARY!!!

Ignore the national media…if you want something nearer to truth…go to the state media..

http://www.tylerpaper.com/article/20080302/OPINION04/803020340

frodo…..I couldn’t agree with you more! Gomer Pyle is a bottom feeder!
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Comment by frodo to Shelby
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:49 am
It could have just as easily been 140 ethic violations.

Unethical is such a soft way of describing Gomer Pyle. He is everything that you wouldn’t want to see a person.

He does have one talent (and it definitely not the Guitar)… He can get the support of Radical Fundamentalist Christians. The same one who bow to the Benny Hinns and James Dobsons. You know, the ones who have a daily one on one with GOD. All you have to do is to give them the Roe vs. Wade bone to gnaw on and they are oblivious at all else.

lurker……You’re right about that!!!
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Comment by lurker
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:06 am
Shelby… you right!

Huckabee is a B$10,000 a night hotel room Benny HInn wanna be. He coildn’t do it as a “paster’ so now he’s trying to get the riches and fame a through the presidency. What fakes… boh of them

lurker….Too bad Huckaphony’s dental gift was only $250. I think he looks like a gerbil when he smiles! Also a poll of dentists liked Romney’s smile more than Hucks:

CHICAGO, Feb. 23 (UPI) — A Chicago Dental Society poll found 45 percent of dentists thought of all 2008 presidential hopefuls former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has the best smile.

Of the Republican candidates, John McCain and Mike Huckabee have not impressed voters with toothy grins. McCain’s smile was favored by 6 percent and Huckabee’s by 10 percent.

From: http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Health/2008/02/23/poll_dentists_like_romneys_smile_best/1759/

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Comment by lurker
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:45 pm

According to Huckabee’s disclosure reports, he accepted more than 300 gifts worth at least $130,000, ranging from $3,700 cowboy boots to a $600 chainsaw and $250 worth of dental care.

Today I went fishing at about 11AM I just got home and I’m glad that my lady has fijitas on the menu because we didn’t get a fish big enough to feed a parakeet.

I read a comment from lurker before I left and another just now. both are feeble.

Lurker, turn off your PC and go fishing. This life’s not for you. You lack the intellegence for it.

Please take this as constructive criticism.

I’m going to watch Kyle Busch win the Las Vas race now.

What is WRONG with people?????!!!!!…….can’t they see Mike Huckabee is the only one that really cares about the American people? You would NEVER see McCain, Clinton or Obama doing ANYTHING like this!!!!

Excerpt from Larry Miller article:

If you could yell “Cut!” on life and speak to Mike Huckabee honestly, and he spoke honestly in return — both, I realize, low probability items — But if you could, and asked him why he was still running, and he answered from the heart, he would say…

“It’s a great way to fill the day. Without it, I’d have nothing to do. With it, the days are jammed with things that look important. They’re not, but they look that way, and that’s good enough for me. See, when I get up in the morning now, I come downstairs at whatever Four Seasons I’m staying in for free or on ‘The Campaign’ or paid for by the loans everyone knows I’ll never pay back, and when I get downstairs there are twenty or thirty reporters waiting for me. Someone on my staff hands me a cup of coffee, just the way I like it, and a bowl of melon balls — I miss the donuts, but you know all about that — and they ask me questions and I get to use hunks from my speech or let my fancy wander about Iran, and the economy, and life in general, and no one interrupts, and they write down what I say. Then, I’m whisked away in a Town Car with ten Suburban’s behind us to a junior high or a factory or a bridge club and everyone there fawns over me and smiles, and I say a lot of things again, and they don’t interrupt me, either. Then, more often than not, people come up to me with moist eyes and thank me for what I’m doing, or say they agree, or just yak. I usually can’t tell, really, because there’s just so much you can listen to people without tuning out, but who cares? Then there’s lunch, and the owner and the chef and the waitress all take a picture with me and insist there’s no way I can pay, and we drive off to another event. I hate passing the fried chicken places, ’cause I can’t have that anymore, either. Anyway, wherever we go people listen to me and applaud. The rest of the day is like that, and my staff and I will usually gather in my suite after dinner for some Yahtzee. And the next day is the same. So it’s all great.

(Seattle Times)

“See, without that I’d have nothing to do. If I leave the campaign, there’ll be no one waiting for me downstairs to ask questions. In fact, there’ll be no fancy hotels. No speeches, no photographs, no meetings, no teary-eyed hugs, nothing. I’ll have to go home and sit around there with my wife, and she’s sure as hell not going to bring me any coffee. She’s not going to listen to me go on and on about this and that, she’s heard it all before, plenty of times, more than she can stand. If I even comment on an item in the paper, she doesn’t even look up from her needlepoint, but just raises one hand and opens and closes it in the ‘Yeah, yeah, blah, blah’ gesture we all know and keeps doing it till I stop speaking. Then I probably have to pick things up from the cleaners or something. Then I spend a half hour or so making faces in the mirror. Then I pretend to be aiming at people walking by on the sidewalk outside. You know. Stuff like that.

“And you want me to go back to that faster than I need to just because I have no chance of winning? Are you out of your mind? The only thing I care about is that for another few weeks I get to strut around and pretend I actually have something to do in the world. What the hell do you think Romney is doing now, counting his money? Posing with those kids? I’ll bet that wife of his isn’t smiling so much anymore. They’ve been married two hundred years or something, so she’s way past smiling, believe me.

“Anyway, this honesty session is over. I’m running for president, and you can’t stop me. I’ve got three or four places to go today, and then we’re flying to Indiana tomorrow, or New Mexico. Hell, I don’t know, who cares? All I know is, it’s another day I won’t be sitting in my den drumming my fingers on some stupid table my wife got.”

Look for Mike Huckabee up in a booth on TV in a few months after he’s finally called it quits on the campaign. CNN or Fox if he can swing it, but he’ll take MSNBC or C-Span. Then maybe his own show, if he has enough juice.

There’s always the Food Channel.

Tes, The anti Huckabee people here are comprised of sour grapes Romney supporters that no longer have a candidate. I would not worry, however, their vote is small and insignificant.

Tes,

Answer me this if Huck is so great.

How is it that Huckabee is a conservative? Is it his ethics violations. (I know most were frivolous, but SOME weren’t.) Is it his increasing government? Maybe it is his tax raising? Maybe it is giving a free ride to illegals? So other than his stance on abortion, what is it that makes him a conservative? Please don’t tell me it is the fair tax, which won’t work if it would pass, and wouldn’t pass so it is moot. His record is anything but conservative. Do you believe what he says over what he does? If that is so, why do you believe him? Is it because when he says he won’t show an ad, he does. Or when he says he has a theology degree and he doesn’t? Maybe it is because when he took money from his previous campaigns and was fined for it, he blamed it on Bill Clinton picking on him. Maybe it is because he says he ran against the Clinton Machine 4 times and he was successful, when he actually lost twice and then only took office after a scandal and then ran as the incumbent?

So why is it that you think Huckabee is the hope for the Republican party?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12FlJal2nG0